Combined game and advertising board



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COMBINED GAME AND ADVERTISING BOARD. No. 373,745. PatentedNov. 22, 1887'.

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WILLIAM XVAIT LE SEUR, OF BOSTON, AND JAMES ADDISON LE SEUR, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED GAME AND ADVERTISING BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,745, date-d November 22, 1887.

Application filed September 21, 1886. Serial No. 5214,86. (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, \VILLIAM \VAIT LE SEUR, of Boston, and JAMES ADDISON LE SEUR, of Somcrville, Massachusetts, have invented an Improvementin Combined Game and Advertising Board, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to provide a novel game-board. In the present embodiment of ourinvention we haveshown the board as forming acombined game and advertising board.

In accordance with our invention three independent leaves composed of card-board or other suitable material are bound or otherwise fastened together to form, as it were, a book, two of the said leaves constituting the cover, the third leaf forming the body thereof. Each of the leavesconstituting the cover is marked or divided off at its inner face to leave a central space and a border, which is preferably extended about three sides of the said central space. The central space referred to on the inside of one cover-board may be marked or divided to constitute one-half of a chess or checker board, and the central space at the inside of the other cover may be marked or di- I vided to constitute one-half of a backgammon board. The third or intermediate leaf constituting the body of the book is also marked at each side or face to leave a central space and a border similar to the inside of the covers. The central space on one side or face of the body leaf is marked to constitute one-halfof a chess or checker board, while the central space at the other face of the body-leaf is marked to constitute one-half of a backgammon-board. The border extended about each of the central spaces referred to is preferably divided into a number of smaller spaces, each of which may be utilized for purpose of advertising.

Our invention therefore consists of a gameboard composed of a cover formed by two leaves fastened together and to a third interposed body-leaf by a folding binding, each of the said cover-leaves being provided on its inner face with characters to constitute half of a game-board, and the body-leaf containing on opposite sides the other halves necessary to complete the gameboard of the cover-leaves, the construction being substantially as hereinafter particularly set forth and claimed.

Figure 1 is a view of a game-board embodying our invention,with the body-leaf turned to the right to form a complete chess or checker board; Fig. 2, a view with the body-leafturned in the opposite direction to form a backgamiiioirboard; Fig. 3, an end View of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 an enlarged detail showing the piece of cloth or leather employed to join the cover and body leaf and form a flexible joint to enable the board to lie flat.

. The cover a a and the body-leaf a are connected together by a binding, a consisting,as shown in Fig. 4, of two separate pieces, a" a, of cloth, leather,or other suitable material usually employed for binding books, 820. The pieces a a of cloth, leather, or other material 0 are first united in accordance with our inveu tion by a row of stitching, a and the piece (6 is pasted or otherwise fastened to the body leaf on both sides of the latter, and the piece a on each side of the row of stitching a is fastened to the outside of a coverlcaf. The pieces a. a" being seamed together, as shown, enable the body-leaf a to occupy a more nearly hori zontal position when turned to complete either the checker or backgammon board, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, thus permitting the checkers to be moved readily from one part of the board to the other without lifting them from the board. The covers and body-leaves may and preferably will be of card-board. The leaves a a on theinside or faceand the leaf a? on both faces are marked or divided, as herein shown, to leave an inner or central space. The inner or central space of the leaf aand of one face of the leaf (6 are marked or otherwise divided to constitute one half of a chess or checker board, as at B, Fig. 1, the other half being shown and the board completed when the leaf a occupies the position shown in said Fig. 1, while that of the cover a and the other face of the intermediate or 5 body leaf, a", are marked or divided to constitute a backgammon-board, as at B, Fig. 2, the said backgammon-board being completed when the body-leaf a" is turned to occupy an opposite position to that in Fig. 1namely, that shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The central space on one face of the covers a aand both faces of the intermediate or body leaf, a are herein shown ashavingextended aboutthree ofitssidesaborder, D,divided, as herein shown, into parallelogramical spaces, as at d. Each space D may be utilized as an advertising-space,i nto which may be printed or otherwise placed suitable advertisement. The central spaces of the chess or checker and backgammon board may be painted or printed directly upon the board,or the said spaces may be made by printing upon leather or other suitable material,which material may be applied to the board by glue or in other usual manner. It is evident that the central spaces may be marked in suitable manner-to form a board for other usual games. It is also evident that the border may be divided into spaces other than parallelogramical in form-such, for instance, as triangles, heptagons, &c.

We claim 1. The coverleaf a, adapted for one game, and the cover-leafa,adapted for another game, and the body-leaf a", adapted on opposite sides for correspondence with the cover-leaves, re-

spectively, and a binding, a, to unite them, 25 consisting of pieces aiaflstitched together, sub stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The cover-leaves a and a and the bodyleaf a marked or dividedfor game and advertising purposes, substantially as described,and 0 a binding, a consisting ofpieces a? a, stitched together for uniting the cover-leaves with the body-leaf in the manner set forth, to adapt the body-leaf for co-operation with either of the cover-leaves, substantially as set forth. 5

3. The leaves a a of, marked or divided, substantially as described, to constitute gameboards, combined with a binding to unite said leaves, it. consisting of two pieces, a afljoined by stitching ciasand for the purpose specified. 0

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

\VILLIAM XVAIT LE SEUR; JAMES ADDISON LE SEUR. Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, F. L. EMERY. 

